the REALITY

It was a notoriously stormy season during which El Niño wreaked havoc on the California coast. One of the last boats to escape out the harbor mouth over the annual sandbar that blocked the entrance in the days before dredging operations at the Santa Cruz Yacht Harbor, Shanachie snuck out on a rare, still, glassy day December 26th, 1982 and set sail for the southern seas. Little did we know then that it would be nearly 17 years before Shanachie returned through the harbor entrance at Santa Cruz.